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* N EVERYT1ING By MRS. MAR3L , EI thank Thee, 0 our Father, 1,'or all Thy tender care, And ask that we may ever Thy gifts with others share. We thank Thee for the comforts, - The common joys of life; For health and strength to labor, Freedom from want and strife. Thanka for our co immon blessir.gs, The friends that cheer our way. 'Tis joy for them to labor. 'Tis sweet for them to pray. ;Mary Acker sat oa the foot of the bed, her bank-book 'on her knee, a A'pencil between her fingers, and a frown on her low, broad brow. "Twenty-nine from seventy-five leaves forty-six," she murmured to herself. "Even then it won't be so very much. The silk in that waist is worse than a secod, and the hat looks as though it'came off a bargain ceounter-which it did." The frown deepened and the pencil made uncertain, imaginary lines in midair. - j "Oh,ldear, wfiat's the use of living In a city and being nobody-because it takes a million to be somebody?" it, Illinois, in Leslie's. ' wn the pencil and the -over- to the bureau, palm of her hands on - lied the reflection in ~ ~ ies, she was pretty! And she didn't need a mirror to tell her so. Tihe admiring glances of men who passed her on the street and the outspoken admiration or unveiled * jealousy of the girls in the store where she- clerked had told her this every day since she had come to town. * And with a certain sense of satisfac tion shli realized further that she was a very different girl from the fright ened country lassie who had started in as a wrapper at Blank & Dash's department stose two years back. It had been a hard struggle. She had lived at first at a working girls' ome. but as her salary had been dually raised she had gone to a 4ore attractive boarding-house. Still out le realized more and more each day the rhat she was a mere satom in this city sinife. She had made a few acquaint-' ances at the church where she had ienrolled, but Sunday often found her too tired to leave -the house, or she had a little washing or mending to do. Somehow she had never been able to fraternize with the girls at the store, and the invitations which she had received from callow youths who shared her work behind the counter had been unattractive. Very different had been her picture of the new life in Boston; when, in defiance -of the wishes of her family, and of Jim Coleman, who had been her' avowed suitor ever since he had car ried her books to the district school, she had turned her back on Newton Village and her face toward Boston. She was going to see life. She was going to be one of those 'bachelor * maids that she had read about. She would be a part of; the picture and ption of the great city, and now, to ~e realized for the first time that '--.n opportunity to take part in thi T~ing side of life. She had received an vitation from Har o ld Goldman, wh'il sold the firm but tons and buckles. Ite was at this coun ter that Mary worked, and young Goldman had been ettracted to her from the first, but for some reason which the girl could not explain she had gently parried his invitations. This morning, however, he had touched the right cord and she had responded. He had been holding up his samples and stopped suddenly. "Gee, but I dread the day after to morrow! Holidays in town are al ways lonesome if you don't know a lot of people." Mary nodded her bead; she had 'ng Thanksgiving Day. what," continued Gold lebrate together. You * ad rats and we'll go to -. - A fashionable cafe for * and theatrical set). -minute Mary's eyes sparkled. She realized that the girls within earshot were consumed with envy. Then something in her Puritan . ,- e. . oyte face Cert - 1 -.1 GIVE Tt1ANKS, B. WINGATE. Thanks ror the highest blessings Thv natchlcss love has given, Faith in the wrld's Redeemer, Hope of a home in heaven. Thanks for the disappointments That oft our hopes assail; Theyv teach us to look forward To joYs that cannot fail. And go. though tears are falling O'er joys forever flown, We thank Thee for the sorrows Our human hearts have known. -Christian Herald. ip-bringing rebelled. A hotel dinner n Thanksgiving Day; a show instead f a .quiet evening with relatives and -riends around the family hearth :tone. But only for an instant did :his thought obtrude. She had al ways wanted such experiences. Gold man was a salesman; he could afford . She accepted promptly. Then he went upstairs to the suit depart ent with the firm intention of pur ihasing the "glad rags" to which 3oldman had referred. Still, night >und her with the raiment unpur iased. "It is so cheap," she sighed to her ;elf, as she thought of the factory nade silk gown and the ready-to-wear hat at which she had looked. Another thing that bothered her was the fact that she could not forget he imitation jewelry Goldman wore, nd a - certain obnoxious brilliancy Ihat she had noted at times in his eyes. His conversation, too, was not the sort Mary had been accustomed to in her social life at home. It was the jargon of the city shops, of the girls 5he did not like. She did not so much object to drawing her savings from the bank to buy the clothes as she did obect to wearing them. Something within her cried out against mock finery. She was stlal debating the question when a knock sounded at her door. The maid handed her a bulky express package addressed in her father's stiff, irregular handwriting. Mary ripped the cords and an exclamation, half laughing, half tearful, escaped her lips. Pies and cakes there were, ome-made cheese, nuts and ears of opcorni raised on the farm. She ead the note with brimming eyes: "Dear Daughter--I reckon you can et pies in Boston, but not the kind our mother makes. We are sending ou this, thinking perhaps you might ive some of your girl friends a treat n Thanksgiving night, and wishing WHO'LL GETs THE TH ro cul sae hemoe tocm you couldspae the i moseyto omea wful lot to live In tovw, and things ave not gone very well on the farm this year, so we can't afford to send you the money. We'll be thinking of ou, though, on Thanksgiving Day. "Your affectionate father, "JOHN ACKER." Mary read the letter through twice. Girl friends! She had nopie. She ardly knew the people in the house here she boarded. She thought of the seventy-five dollars in '.he bank. What had she been saving it for? To buy fine clothes when she-became part f the city life; and how far would seventy-five dollars go? She asked the question bitterly. All of a sudden she seemed to see her mother in the big. cheeful kitch en, singing over the preparations for Thanksgiving dinner. But wou-ld she be singing with a daughter far way from her in a strange, lonesome ity? No, they did not look on her as being lonesome; no doubt she was h'aving a very good time, for- Mary had always kept up appearances in her letters. And then she happened to see the postscript on the back of her father's note: "Jim Coleman bought Deacon Wil son's store at the Corners. He's fix ing it up in good shape, and they say that Myra Wilson's going to stay and clerk for him." Just how it happened Mary could never tell, but suddenly the picturE of Goldman, the salesman in his mock jewelry, came before her and offended her mental vision. * * . * * S * It was 4 o'clock the next day be fore she thought ef him again, she had been so busy with her prepara tions to l'eav'e town. Now she hurried to the telephone. "Oh, Mr. Goldman," she exclaimed as she heard his voice at'.the other end of the wire, "I am going home for Thanksgving, so I can't take dinner with you to-morrow night." "Well, you're a wonder," in dis gusted accents, "to throw a fellov down like this at the last minute You're a peacherino, that's what yoi The rebuke fell on heedless ears. Mary's next visit was to the tW'e graph office. she wrote three mes sages and tore them up. The final one said: "James Coleman, Newton Village: Send word to mocithe:'r I'll be home for Thanksgiving and al ways." Myra Wilson, indeed,- she mur mured, as she made her way to the superintendent's desk to hand in her resignation. "I guess I can give her pointers on clerking." * * * * * * * The train slowed up at Newton Village. As she sprang from the steps of the car the figure she was looking for loomed up in the keen November twilight. "Oh, Jim!" was all she said, but the man understood, and as he tucked her into the sleigh he looked straight into her eyes. "I reckoned if anything would bring you back Thanksgiving would." She bent forward so that he could hardly catch the words: "But it wasn't Thanksgiving Day, Jim, it was-you."-McCall's Maga zine. Thanksgiving Day. New Year's Day we share with all the world, and Christmas and Easter with all Christendom. The Fourth of July Is emphatically our own day, but It is purely patriotic in Its significance. Thanksgiving Day is as distinctively American as the Nation's birthdaf is, and it is sacred to the two strongest forces in Ameri can life. There are plenty of people abroad, and some at home, who do not be lieve that our people are eminent for vi( religion or domesticity. But they are. And one evidence of it is this very day of annual observance. It may be quite true that a great part of the population does not go to church on the last Thursday of No vember, and it is evident that much of the day is devoted to football and i other outdoor sports. But the day was never a fast day; quite the con- on trary; in its primitive form and its car New England surroundings it was a Ro feast day, so far,,at least, as the sup- ths plies of food permitted. It was a day of public worship and thanksgiv- the ing to God, but even the New Eng- Ce dr lander did not go to church all day; he devoted no inconsiderable share to of it to hearty eating. d Religion has always been a great - power in American society-a fact ha, sometimes lost sight of in the mul- ma tiplicity of religious bodies; it is cot sometimes supposed that mere de- POI nominational partisanship takes the thi place of real, deep religious feeling. (0 This Is not so. No people in the thE world are more strongly moved by co religious feeling in distinction from C religious ceremonial and religious en, habits, and to no people is it more sa, natural to give thanks to God for national and individual blessings. lo Some Englishmen come over here, the glance at our family hotels and our of apartment houses and go back to ye their own country with the story IhI that there is no home life in Amer-in ica. It is as great a mistake as we o Americans make when we imagine' his the French to be without domesticity. cer because their vocabulary has no pre- : cise equivalent for our word "home." of The truth is. that domesicity Is a th< human and not a national feeling, shi re: wi NKSGIVING DINNER ? rai Co tio - ho Idei - i* .~-do to za1 -Life- the and if we have no right to claim pre- tl eminence in its possession, we are at nc least justified in claiming to be In- as ferior to no other nation in our love tel of home and in the strength of our cli family ties. at 'Thanksgiving Day originated in o' New England at a time when the col- co nists had ittle .to give thanks for in except that they were still alive. Its co observance became national about the eg time of the Civil War, because that sx intensified our national feeling, and po Its result gave us occasion for pro- of found thankfulness. Because it Is ar day devoted to the recognition of in man's dependence upon his Creator, a and to reunions of families, it has he appealed strongly . to fundamental pr American instincts, and has estab- mi lished Itself East and West, North nc and South. at The American people have at this - time abundant reason for thankful- th ness in .he continuance of peace; In . the abundant harvests, and In the absence of epidemics and calamities. a Much as there is to condemn in bus- og iness and polities, and frequent as are sti private scandals, we believe that i American progress is not limited to -- the acquisition of wealth, but that In the standards of public and private life are slowly advancing; that pub lic spirit and generosity are growing th virtues; that domestic virtues were bi never more esteemed, and that the er American people as a whole will be T1 entirely sincere to-day both when at they--or a good many of thepm--as- It semble in their churches to give ei ~thanks toGod, and also when around li their well loaded dinner table. ahy renew their expressions of family af fection, I 'I . K'b ON THE HO% -Cartoon by C. OUTUNE Of PRESIDENT T sevelt Policies to Be Commended to Topic-Better Anti-Trust Law, Railroa ing Plan to Be Recommended-C sippi-Commission Oin igusta, Ga. - The keynote of c ident Taft's message to the com- I session of Congress will be this I tement: 'This Administration was elected a platform that we proposed to ry out the policies of Theodore i osevelt, and we propose to keep promise." rhe President reserves to himself s right to -decide' what those poli are. He has said'in public ad- C sses that he, niore than any other 1 n, perhaps, had been in a position i know just what Roosevelt did or I not believe. Mr. Roosevelt's chief policy," he , said, "was the determination to I ke the great corporations of the ntry obey the law, and those cor ations included the railroads and t great industrial corporations that i a large -industrial business and., have shown a'tendency to mon- t Iize that business and suppress t npetition." Tr. Taft has indicated clearly z ugh in his speeches what his mes- 3 ,e will be. t will recommend an unusually I gprogram for Congress and cne 1 Lt Is likely to revive a gooa deal c the hostility shown to the Roose t Administration on the score of railroad rate legislation. rhat the President has been look orward to the possibility of seri opposition within the ranks of wn party is indicated by his re tspeeches. fr. Taft will recommend a court fve members ini order that when nterstate Comnierce Commission1 ldecide a ratc is unreasonable a snable rate may be made at once, hno appeal on the part of the .lads except. to the Supreme urt. This is to make the Hepburn bill effective, lHe will point out tthe five judges, having no other iess before them, can not only edite legislation, but naturally. 1become rate experts. here will be also a recommenda of a tribunal that will pas's en many bonds and ]'ow mnany res of stock 'every interstate rail dmay issue, to prevent the water Sof stock. At one time the Presi tsaid: "This is important,. be e when you water stock you only it to deceive people and get them ay more than the stock is worth." urther, Mr. Taft said, it is wrong ause it builds a false foundation hich to reckon what reasonable tiht rates are. ofurther expedite the work of. king railroads obey the law, the eident will recommend a reorgani io of the Bureau of Corporations, SInterstate Commerce Commission dthe Department of Justice that Sthree may work progressively and cbe stumbling over one another, they are under the present sys .But the 'resident will make it ar that he is not attacking corpor os that work legitimately. His ~expression on that subject is: "We could not get along without rporations. Tlfey' are a necessary trument in the business of the ntry. But as we give them privil es, so they must recognize the re Qsibility with which they exercise wer. and we must have t'he means ompelling them to recognize that pensibility and to keep them with the law." The President will recommend an endment to the anti-trust law that thinks will make it effective. The eent terms are so broad that in his nd it Is not enforcable, as it makes distinction between a reasonable .dan unreasonable restraint of trade *adifferece that is ,recognized by commpn law. He will recommend atthe law be amended to narrow Ldconfine It to combinations and spifacies to suppress competition .destablish monopolies, and to leave tthe denunciations of general re-1 'ints of trade. He will not recoin nd that labor unions be specifically~ sanity Caused Strange Auto Deaths in Chicago. Chicago.-Thebody of Ernst Camp, chauffeur who drove his autcmno lewith two passepgers into the riv Sunday night, has been recovered. uebodies of Miss Beatrice Shapiro idMax Cohen are still in the river. has been learned that Camp's par tsare insane, and the theory of the ilce Is that he was also. The trag yhas aroused a public demand for ordinance requiring mnenta1 and ysical examination cf all men who ve automobiles. Jottings About Sports. Young, the Yale freshman centre, ighs 250 pounds. High. of Brown, is regarded as one the best backs of the season. H'owe, the Yale quarterback, is a other of last year's crew captain. Syracuse has all the players of ~tseason's baseball team except Len and Banks. Roy Mercer, the freshman pole ruter at Pennsylvania, has a record 12 feet 1%/ inches. There is a noticeable lack of heavy eght candidates apieng the high 1o elvane this season. IESTRETCH. AffS ANALiES"ili .- ; .. C0Dgrass and Corporations the.-GhieI I Rate Court and Anti-Stock Water oRserive Wearding Missis Parnment E9 r Alaski. xempted from the operation of thp aw, but the effect'of th~e amendment, le admits, will be to p~ut labor out ide the law. Under the present tatute it has been decided by the 'upreme Court that boycotts are a ,iolation of the Sherman act. The President's position on the ubject of honesty In business is as ummarized by himself: "It takes some time for a series of ourts to make a decision which shall ie plain to the business world. But e are going on with this anti-trust aw, and if we amend it as I suggest we shall draw the lines closer and en ble men to know what is legitimate >usiness and what is not." Postal savin s banks will be urged. President Taft will recommend con inuance and extension of the conser ration of national resources and ree amation of arid lands. He will say hat these subjects include also reten ion of c'ontrol over the water power uites by the Government, so that t nay regulate rates charged for thoe >ower furnished, and retention of ontrol of coal, oil and phosphate ands, that the Government may pre rent the use'of those lands by mone :polies. Conservative as to Misslssippi. On the subject of waterways the nessage will recommend continuance Lad extension of thr csh a heatSan Pdof arr lands the wilifor hti thest, sbjths incudedaton on work cono other inlan waterpwys i by most oernmtie. That Prs entay reuat rte cnhasrged fon the oisisipp frihed, and retcnclionso lidro nof ecoae oil iand phswate aysbomes, thet theomn mra pex ense toe seof the lands to h m n' Roergardigte Missoissisipi.Pe dnth subject nof urterway thex nessage thanlt recommend continuc Lcexofteso protectior orkh bs as :he ands hero hor ount Cifor stanl catutis Ouseomendat in or wmprkomn thallinlandwaeraen inil engiosneerveaive iT Prei mdt saw aditoni hs trip don lovernmentpp Rive been hspencthespo ient encourageitheiltad wstat hey omers, wll weti toegrxpense, ne to ho the ier tilot deser erdirgo the aiis~rad the frst menth wilatter fusrtes. Ai the x onestan toflld hemmesdcntiul ate ohe srinefavor of the ovenksent :sun l he benddser thecrentssr con :tmlting. wOutidk that t e ':oidedcroeully, shal bendet e iiTe Presdhaetinmae itscy recommnaddation, itora bentr deon ltatinlev that o the ilonsx on-h A oisonenthv gernent fpo jectk will be rhorwhile- d.at isa the comesult wil ustfth expeninte Pn htippie shipd.rs ecrtar no dear, :etheatr cut ruat. Al the e ~of oones, fufllt the President iller muctehe in ar abfu t asoene ielesn theka wortht itormos ex t'dent cafullyito agn.mlunet SThe President will neomaken a shtipn sulyvin that tom the yneCnt by comiesoGovernment fo ari Cotlaskarortin will be rcmtnddIthe~ Peresut ofelivs thateinceinh trtpion alred, has Sreara ofc stari ithe uardain Cua. Itasd the e muc. Tf east abprsse imsl as e invor oflasa cenhts bankomu hadl ten fnanerioy and smallr, uctath wopulatiu, and no oea o iser-ov to angment ad-cnicino h su*ic Thhe President. There'ind noi sbidylihoo tht fit wilfe part o: bythe messaermntoc the mbryln Cntobal the corporatibnkl wilth aipar issu in lter fmessage, indclud in the corpraloneta~ raseisth Mr. TFutur hosto eshoohiself to iHav S and'Ftral -Ak toomsn eeted inces citf the utur arh decotain sun tepan feha noome accrdint an comniction ono'h sunect than Scheo Presin tor I1 was liklood tat it speil beetipart. th cmssage o the Deebar asona undroal thensidera an plan wuil ing th of thee preseta builng Atonwilure madeton toohoi-s t Thodoe RSuade.-frmr Poresi deetd i this Unityd Sttei fiftre tohcotean Rd.edto and i m mtAassadorn to GremniatiBritain i senty-- theSoo. Cmisint ScloranE.Mca Buffal, N. ep saidptdat sechal beeni fo omittee ofe the oaec' calsoiha fundeoS. dtto lnfruii Chiag thaft he presen wuiling'r sdnt fro the United Statesi armtyO byeas doing dicud/ute tecu of. itepe red. eio n HELIGOLAND. - ie North Sea Sentinel of a C, IGeli .w- irernan t has noV:L 1ath-re(l f:- 1a nvre, guards the (-ntr1'!a--- to 1niany' c two greates - m * I1) that one of he r ::s regards with cum eo having been obtained e for the asking. Not, of courz. tL 1 would have been wise tor the opportunitY of healing of what! was an open sore even though we re ceived in exchange for it a perfectly illusory compensation. which was really not Germany's to give or with hold-the suzerainty of Zanzibar. But although Germany obtained this beautiful and useful island so easily and cheaply, she does not hold it the less dear for that. She is forti fying it-has indeed fortified it-af ter modern ideas, so that it will in deed be a formidable obstacle in the way of any Power threatening the approaches to Hamburg.and Bremen. - What, however, will strike an im partial observer most forcibly in the .contemplation of Heligoland to-day is the marvellous way in which it has become completely Germanized in the short space of nine years. I am afraid that this argiies a neglect' of the island when Britain owned it, and yet it may not be go. For self-con tained little communities like that of Heligoland and Malta have a 4'ay of preserving their individuality in some importsnt respects and of imitating their overlords in others that is not easily-to be explained. How very few, indeed, of the Mal tese in Malta speak English! A very bad patios of Italian anq the ancient Phoenician are their colloquial media, and the parallel holds exactly in Hell goland, where English is practically unknown; the better classes speak German, and the bulk of the popula tion a patios of their own, which is akin to the ancient Frisian. Under German rule, howeter, Heligoland has prospered, has been made to feel that its circumstances could not fail to be bettered by ts inclusion -in. the mighty German Empire; and - al though the conditions of individual freedom are certainly far less easy than they were, there are no signs that the people resent this change. A cynic might say that they dare not, 'but, given a sympathetic listener, the individual who feels the shoe pinch seldom fails to air his grievances. And I find that while there is a slight sentimental regret for the British flag. manifested by those who were born under it, such a feeling is -entirely overweighted by the pride they take in the position occupied by Germany among the nations to-day. The comfort, yes, prosperity, exhib ited by the islanders is very marked, especially in comparison with the isl ands of the Netherlands, which, like Heligoland, gain their livelihood by fishing and the money spent by visit ors during the summer. There are no beggars here and no appearance of either poverty or squalor. All, nmen, 1women. and children are well dressed and appear to be well fed, also to have an air of independence that sits very well upon them. This s .shown also by the great number of large, .well built- fishing boats lying upon the strand and an chored between the two well built piers, a number out of all proportion to the tiny population of 4000. Fish ing is a really prosperous ixdustry here, the fisheren't gains ranging between nyve and ten shillifigs at day each, and in the summer, when, as most seaside visitors know, coastal fishing is suspended by the working. of natural laws, which draw the fish off into deeper water, there comes 1;he Igreat influx of visitors. Their num bers average 30,000, and where on earth they are all bestowed seems a mystery, although no doubt it is easy of solution to the trained caterer for the igants of seaside '~isitors. There must be something extreme ly fascinating in a place' which with out any natural advantages, such as are possessed- by Jersey and Guernsey and the Isle of Man, for instance, cahi draw so large a concourse of people to face an open, sea fourney of thirty miles in compai-atively small steam ers, if they come from Cuihaven, while if the whole journey is miade along the Elbe from - Hamburg it ta'kes from seven to eight hours. All the amusements and recreations, saie such as the modest Kurhaus affords, belong to the sea. There are no ga'r dens or recreation grounids, and the one pier, as distinguislied from the unfinished breakwater, is just a pier and nothing more; ,there is not eveni an efficient shelter upon it. And the walks are severely restricted to a Sew hundred yards, unless the visitor be energetic enough to climb a great many steps up to the swnmit of the red rocks. There he will find a mag -nificent view over the North Sea on every side, but he will also findl it well, especially if a stranger, to read most caref ulWr the notices which abound, to refrain from carrying a camera or making notes of however innocent a nature. Neglect of these Ssimple precautions is certain to land him in serious difficulties, from which, if he is an Englander, he will find it difficult to extricat.e himself, even with much loss of time, money and Stemper.. For it cannot be too widely known that the doctrine of British citizen ship in the sense that It was once un d hdetood is now entirely inverted. ~Should the visItor .to foreign lands or tyen the United States imagine that the. statement of his being an Eng - I-man is likely t~o help him in any di .oulty with the authorities, and act u I6 that idea, he will receive such a I Ikn as will last him the remainder Eis lfe. It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that the notices I refer to above are for the purpose of warning every one not entitled to an entry away - from the foftfficat. h.. at the infringement of an prohibi tions is unthink~bl epn ~alty imnmediatelyz fc*'e e iman military and nzto -is nothing if notb thbsn - more use for mz hni -bai for earelessne -To'desced fo nt to a :nused to ctice in the grocers' hop windows mong a multiplicity of bottles bear ig the names of strange drinks from 11 European lands the packages of ,ell known British n"er uits, sweet stuffs, jamsand rved 'uits. No doubt the, coon ery small, and iossiblyI it a f the British occupation, but therer. E.-London Mail. ,.' C23 Tanks vs. the City Beautiful. 1:y LOUISE HEATON N\ The Consolidated Gas Company, of Sew York, a few years ago erected. a arge gas tank along Riverside; Dijve hadowing Grant's tomb. 'There >pposition from the press, but noth :ng was done. The Flatbush Gas ompany, a subsidiary of the Brook .yn Union, has just completed a tank 191 feet in diameter -and 237 feet bigh in Flatbush in the Borough of Brooklyn. This Is the highest strue Lure in the borough. It stands- in a region of homes, and immediately adjacent to the Kings County Hospi tal and other public -buildings. it can be plainly seen from Eastirn Parkway, the Brooklyn Institute and Prospect Park. It. has taken away from many the equity in their homes, and is a blot upon the landscape for miles around. The Public Service Commission was first appealed to by - the property owners and Civic Ass, elations of Flatbish, but it decided" that it had no jurisdiction. Two suits Eor an injunction were brought, one by the property owners and one by the city of New York.. The city was lefeated at special 'term, and recent Ly the Appellate Division dismissed ts appeal with scant courtesy on theC ground that an ofense to, thesight :annot. be a nuisance. This is t good logic, 'and should not be good law. If such a structure unreason---, bly destroys the comfortable einoyM ment of property, It comes t the definition of.nnsance. N one1 the senses should be discriat against. It Is to be hoped that 'h ourt of Appeals will have .opportn 0ity to pass upon this question. American cities were tforneily con :erned only with growth. 'Now-they are placing their energies i de nent. Eyes6res suclA as Mds. destriel. tive of property and the beauty'of e-7 :lty should not be tolerated; Gas anks and all, their ktt .adk1 should be placed, not where it is most economical, but where, they willdo the least harm. When erected In a :Ity they should: be-built of moderatfr helght. The "skyscraper" tanlsare nnecessarily harmful. If the coits w4i 'not ,protect muxicipaJd es" against such invasion, adequate laws should be at once enacted. In Rnff land tanks may not be erected th in 300 yards qf a residence without - the consent of the owner and oct pants. In no 'continental city a. tanks be placed without regard for public welfare. The location of gas works and tank should be subje to the lapprboval of the--public gervice :ommission, and~ the consent' of-owka ars of houses used exclusively-fozfesI :lential purposes within a prescribed listance should be-.required. We. guard residential sections against sa loons by such a law. :Who would' tot prefer a saloon as a neighbor to a huge gas tank'?-The Survey, How He Made a Cuddle. A gentleman went into 'a pipeak ar's shop with the intention of seeing' the method of making -pipes. The proprietor, who was a Scotchi- had arrived from Edinburgh a few weeks ago. When the Phiflgdelphian got In the shop he f'und only aboy back of the :ounter, so without more-ado he thus addressed him: "Well, my callant, I'll giveyoua iuarter If you show me howsd yo n~ake' your pipes." "I canna mak' a peep,'eir ied~a the' lad. "Ie' only mak' a cnddie. "A cuddie! What's that, ,my bin. "I';a short: peep," replied 'he~ boy, "sic as men and womenP smoke oot on." "I'll give you a -quarter If you show me how you make that." "Gie's yer quarter furst," was the reply. The. gentleman gave the boy the quarter, a'nd he took a losir pise and broke a piece off It, sayingf . "There, now,. sir, that is-the way I mak' cuddies."-Phladelphia Times. -The American Tipper. Ernst Muller, in his Reisebilder, tells this story: "In the matter 'of tips to servants of high and low de, gree there is nos one who can compare with the New Yorker. He uses neith er judgment nor arithmetic in mk Ing these donations. Somnetimes I have compared this quality with a certain kind of hysteria. The wdmn' who has 'faint spells' Is seldom over come when alone, but usually in the prtesence of those who, she thnkM , will sympathize .with. -her. So i 4 with the big tip -New Yorker. -.When he takes his luncheon alone his tip is of the normal kind; wvhen he is ac companied by a guest his 'liberality' makes Itself manfest ant.when 1e is the host at a large gaiteringh baa a. regular fit of geuerosity."--Phila dephia Inguirer. Liberia's New Language. There Is In use t'n som'parts of the West Coast' of, Africa .a system 1of writing, of natlye invention, which is said to be successfully competing with English writing. It is called the VaX language and was Invented by Doaln Burbrere, assisted by five of his fr-iends. The characters :resemble Egytlan hieroglyphics,'* -but the tongue Is said to be harmoniou, rela timely easy to pronounce, and with .a grammar that is far from difficult. - It Is being more and more used in West Africa, and It Is said may. be come the dominant form of native speech In Liberia and adjacent coun tries.-Kansas City Journal. Illogical Woman. Biobbs-" A woman is always illog ical." Slobbs-"Of course she is; a worn an will always expect you to Temem ber her birthday, but never her age." _Phllaelnhin Rorrd.. -